Just A Note On Coin Id's We Write On Tags

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louisvillekyshop CCF Advertiser United States 1303 Posts	Posted 03/15/2022 05:52 am Going through a lot to sell right now, and seeing fast writing with reference numbers on the flips, it looks like the past collector meant these notes for himself. Shorthand etc, all directions, and that is perfect of course. But I always say to myself, with the hundreds of people who see auctions with photos of the flips then through the probably many decades these will travel with the coins, I wonder if the collectors realize the literally thousands of people who will be reading these over the future centuries. Just kind of a mind blowing thought. (Like when I teach analytical chemistry, based on how I was taught it and they were taught it before me, research lab notebook has to be threaded not spiral bound, lab notes in pen, any mistake you cross out gently, put in brackets, and initial the correction. We expect our research notes will be inspected by others perhaps and write even the smallest observations with the eye on future persons reading it. The ancient coin collector of course is a researcher the same way.) Edited by louisvillekyshop 03/15/2022 06:02 am Report this Post to the Staff

jskirwin Pillar of the Community United States 616 Posts	Posted 03/15/2022 07:28 am Good point. Never hurts to forget that we don't really own the coins: we are just borrowing them from History for a few decades. Report this Post to the Staff
chafemasterj Pillar of the Community United States 6514 Posts	Posted 03/15/2022 09:58 am Another good point jskirwin. We are merely conservators of them for a short while. Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 Report this Post to the Staff
circusmax120 Valued Member United States 319 Posts	Posted 03/15/2022 10:56 am Exactly correct. When we acquire these pieces of history, we become stewards. One in a long line of past stewardships. Caring for these objects until it is time to pass them on to the next caretaker. It is a humbling and honorable position! Report this Post to the Staff
JohnConduitt Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 725 Posts	Posted 03/15/2022 11:24 am I don't mind as long as you can read it and there is a tag. It's depressing how often this information gets lost. Take this note on some of the coins sold by Sibury Coins. If your collection is so great that Tony Abramson (the person who wrote all the books on the subject) inventories it, you really need to make sure your heirs don't do anything stupid: "This coin is a part of the 'John Cross Collection' of Anglo Saxon coins. John was an avid collector of coins from across the Anglo Saxon period for many years, he sadly passed away in 2020. His coins were recovered by executors who appear to have destroyed all paperwork relating to them meaning that there are no tickets or provenance prior to his collection. Tony Abramson has compiled an inventory of his early coins, a copy of which is available on request and individual numbers on the back of our tickets relate to this. The collection contains many rarities, seldom offered on the open market so this is a good opportunity for collectors to obtain rare coins which are usually unavailable." https://www.silburycoins.co.uk/prod...ilver-sceat/ Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5172 Posts	Posted 03/15/2022 12:35 pm I recently bought several dozen cheap German States coins from a seller who apparently wrote down wherever he acquired the coin on the 2x2s. I made sure to copy the dates and names into my Numista coin comments, where I normally just mention the place where I got the coins (and often not even that, because I commonly only add my purchases to Numista weeks later, and sometimes get them mixed up with stuff bought from elsewhere). Overall, though, I legitimately usually have no idea of the provenance of (many of) my coins. Where did I buy them? Vasya's bargain bin at Hobby City. How did they get there? I have no idea and when I bothered to ask Vasya he usually didn't remember either. (One coin where I do know the provenance, and am happy for it, is this one. Not much of a coin, and not much of a provenance, but it's still a neat piece, and the provenance gives it historical interest that coins in this condition rarely have.) Report this Post to the Staff
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